"#JesuisCharlie", "#JenesuispasCharlie"

Le paradygme conflictuel de l’humour dans l’hyperconsommation

Author(s): Eugen Istodor / Language(s): French / Issue: 1/2017

In a „liquid“ society (Bauman), the traditional authorities and institutions are adrift. The State, the family etc.are exceeded by antisystemic actions. New ideological mouvements try to dissolve the traditional ideologies. The humor of Charlie Hebdo is not adapted to the new structure of the public space. In a world of ever moredifficult to identify avatars, the gouaille Ŕ harsh, uncivil humor Ŕ has radically and definitely transformed the conflicts. The institutions of reconciliation and the frontieres of civility are dissolved.Charlie Hebdo is a victim not only of social, political, and cultural destructurations, but also of anxiety, fear and violence, raised against the socratic doubt and its irony.

"A vallási élet elemi formái"-tól "A média rítusai"-ig: durkheimi fogalmak a kommunikációelméletben

Author(s): Eszter Bartha / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 18/2012

The essay gives a critical review of The Rituals of the Media by Lajos Császi. It seeks to showhow the Durkheimian sociology of religion can be applied to the modern communicationtheory and what perspectives such a combination can store for sociology. The mediahas a significant impact on the formation of public opinion; therefore, its rituals deservea special attention. However, the opinion forming power of the media depends on thesocial structure and the movement of the masses. Today even ordinary people can broadcastInternet TV-programmes and we have not even mentioned the technical possibilitiesoffered by the various social network sites. It is not only the technical competence, whichdetermines whether a given opinion will remain embedded in a narrow subculture or itsucceeds to move the masses, which was a well-loved catchword of the 20th century

"Continuities and discontinuities. Educational program of The Planned Parenthood Association in Krakow (1957 – 1993)"

Author(s): Barbara Klich-Kluczewska / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2014

The article presents the program of sexual education prepared and offered by Krakow Branch of the Planned Parenthood Association in the wider context of socio-political situation in Krakow (1956 – 1989). Since the beginning of the Association’s existence, the special attention was paid to the development of educational program, which concerned the different aspects of „family life“. The article is going to answer the questions about its goals, the educational tools used to achieve them and its social targets. To accurately determine the position of the Association in the city‘s community I will analyse its foundation and activities in wider context of the pre-war traditions of the organisation and the activities regarding premarital counselling undertaken by the Krakow Catholic Church.

"From medium to meaning". O propagandowych środkach wyrazu w filmie "Triumf woli" Leni Riefenstahl

Author(s): Małgorzata Laskowska / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 4/2020

The main purpose of this paper is to determine the most frequently used propaganda forms of expression in the film Triumph of the Will by Leni Riefenstahl. This research target may be presented in the form of the following questions: Which propaganda forms of expression have been used in the film? Which symbols have been used to convey the message in Leni Riefenstahl’s film? The answers to these questions will be interpreted in the context of Stewart M. Hoover’s theory “from medium to meaning.” Its author paid attention to the essential question: To what extent do media convey meaning? To what extent do they give meaning to a phenomenon? Analogically, a question may be asked, with reference to Riefenstahl’s film: to what extent her film might have given meaning to the Nazi propaganda? What was the role of cinema in Adolf Hitler’s policy and in popularising his views? The article is a review paper. Its indirect goal is to draw attention to the transfer of meaning in audiovisual communication.

"GERMAN WORLD" OR THE ORIGINAL CULTURE: SWISS-GERMAN CULTURAL RELATIONS IN 1930-1940

Author(s): Dmytro Vedenieiev,Victoriya Pechyborshch / Language(s): English / Issue: 4/2016

The objectives are to analyze the development of the relations in the sphere of the culture between Switzerland and Germany in the 1930-40’s and to determine the reasons for termination of the cultural dialogue between the countries after the arrival of national socialists in German and conditions of its recovery after the Second World War. The historical-genetic and comparative methods were chosen for the study. With the use of the historical-genetic method, the evolution of the German-Swiss cultural relations in the first half of the XX c. was explored. Appeal to the comparative method has enabled to draw the conclusions about the features of the bilateral cultural relations between Switzerland and Germany in the period between the two world wars, during the war of 1939 – 1945 and post-war years. Scientific novelty of the proposed article is that for the first time in Ukrainian historiography an attempt to explore the development of the cultural relations between Switzerland and Germany in 1930 – 40's was made. Conclusions. The main reasons of the Swiss efforts to withdraw from the involvement in the German cultural world in the late 1930's – 40's were memories of the First World War, when the conflict between the French and German communities had put in jeopardy the peace within the Swiss society, and a desire not to create the pretext for the global public accusations against Switzerland of its involvement in the crimes of the national socialists, which could raise doubts about the issue of Swiss neutrality. The background for the restoration of the cultural dialogue between the countries was the desire of Swiss to support the formation of a new democratic regime in the neighboring country, which was realized through the activities of both individual private artistic associations and institutions, and the work of the Swiss diplomacy, which through the analysis of the cultural situation of the particular German states was searching for the potential areas and ways of cooperation.

"Gwiezdne wojny" - efekt bumerangowy

Author(s): Jolanta Niewińska / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1/2019

The understanding of good by a man who grew up in the “gutter” among juvenile gangs is distorted. It is not surprising then that Han Solo did not become a Jedi knight. However, can a young reader of “The Great Escape” from “Star Wars” reason this out? Media education is indispensable here, so that by analysing the content of the book and its context throughout the saga, we can come to conclusions that many would see as opposite to those intended by the author. So what is this boomerang effect?

"I produce for myself": public service media, cross-media and producers in today's media eco-system

Author(s): Alessandro Nani / Language(s): English / Issue: 02/2018

Public service broadcasters are adapting to today’s media eco-system and to the increasingfragmentation of audiences by shifting from aclassical broadcasting approach to cross-mediaproductions that exploit the synergy of different media and that, theoretically, invite differentforms of audience inclusion.Such ashift is, however, far from unproblematic, as it often challenges old paradigms, one ofwhich is the traditional, rather unidirectional relation that producers have with audiences.In this article, Ibuild on Umberto Eco’s concepts of meaningand interpretationto explorehow cross-media is conceptualised in relation to audiences and how producers position them-selves in their relationship with audiences. Working with three case studies from the publicservice media of Finland and Estonia, three sets of semi-structured interviews with key figuresof the three production teams (twenty interviews in total), Iattempt to demonstrate how therelation of cross-media producers with their audiences still faces the same challenges as in thepast, often related to hegemonic positioning that producers tend to take towards audiences.

"La Langue de Bois" et "Le Politiquement Correct" dans le Discours Public Roumain

Author(s): Sorina Şerbănescu / Language(s): French / Issue: 16/2017

Le discours public roumain d’après la Révolution de '89 a gardé des anciennes habitudes langagières communistes dont "la langue de bois". D’autre côté, il a emprunté, comme une conséquence de la synchronisation trop rapide à la modernité, des clichés langagiers qui continuent les tendances agressives et autoritaires héritées du totalitarisme communiste. Notre analyse imbrique la sémantique du discours, la sémiotique, la pragmatique linguistique et la psycholinguistique, se concentrant sur des corpus tirés des discours publics des dernières dix années.

"MAPE STEREOTIPA" KAO DUHOVITO-OPAKI PROIZVOD:FOLKLORIZACIJA I KOMERCIJALIZACIJA ETNIČKIH PREDRASUDA U INTERNET PROSTORU

Author(s): Dragana Antonijević,Ana Banić Grubišić / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 1/2013

"Maps of stereotypes", whether they are made for commercial purposes created by Bulgarian designer Yanko Tsvetkov or have been created by anonymous authors, has become extremely popular in Cyberspace in the last two years. They are transmitted via e-mail communication or via social networks and the web pages which host this kind of maps attracts millions of visitors. Their intended humor has it vicious side: in the form of joke they provide folklorized prejudices about nations and states, and at the same time they cemented them as fixed images, ethnic labels and essentialized notions in consciousness and conception of the numerous Internet audience. From the multicultural perspective and its necessity for negotiating the diversity of identities who are supposedly susceptible of change, these stereotypical maps by utilizing cleverly constructed notions express the complete opposition: the characteristics of the people and of the state of a particular historical and political period are essencialized, offering as a "truth" the point of view of the sender without the possibility of the message recipient to respond in other ways than to press the "like button" or to show "silent" revolt or, even, by creating the "contra-map" with similar humorous and vicious content. In this paper we will examine the phenomenon of so called maps of stereotypes and ascribed notions of Serbia within political and geographical territory of former Yugoslavia and the Balkans.

"Miejsce urodzenia" Pawła Łozińskiego jako mnemotopos

Author(s): Magdalena Roszczynialska / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 2/2017

The author presents the film directed by Paweł Łoziński, Place of Birth (Miejsce Urodzenia,1992), in the categories of a multidimensional memory place, which, as a sort of workdone on the material of the past, can be characterized by definition as an object in action,a performative. She describes the movie using the concepts of affect, trauma culture andcollaborative authorship. The movie is presented as: a comparative place of memory, anarchive, trauma experience catalyst, trauma translator, a performative shaping a non-memoryplace into a mnemotopos – depending on the perspective/status of the author instance.

"Nem számít, hogy mit tudsz, része vagy mindennek, ami történik". Női archetípusok a klasszikus film noir-ban

Author(s): Klára Buzogány / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 2/2008

The leading female characters in film noir can be included in 2 main categories. Determining their types, characterising feminine figures and the analysis of the role of dramaturgy of action can be approached from the point of view of their relation with the male character.

"Super Choda zdrowia doda" – o kreatywności językowej wpisów zamieszczanych przez Ewę Chodakowską na portalu społecznościowym Facebook

Author(s): Michalina Pokorska / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 0

"Three Drops of Blood for the Devil": Data Pioneers as Intermediaries of Algorithmic Governance Ideals

Author(s): Anu Masso,Maris Männiste / Language(s): English / Issue: 01/2020

Governance bodies formulated the universal ideals of algorithmic decision-making. But,the role of data experts acting as pioneers in developing, resisting, and implementing theseideals is not known. This study relies on in-depth interviews (n=24) conducted with Estonian data experts to explore data pioneers’ understandings of algorithmic governance ideals. The results reveal dual transformations in the social datafication process where datapioneers develop technologies and intermediate their ideals towards algorithmic solutions.The study highlighted new sectorial ‘algorithmic divides’, in both data accessibility as wellas ideals among data pioneers in public and private institutions. The resulting force majeurein datafication, which prevents private and public sector experts from forming a uniformcommunity, can create a vicious circle of unforeseen negative consequences. Resolving thedivides in algorithmic communities and advancing cross-sector cooperation is the basis forforming transparency, accountability and social good as the main ideals in algorithmicdecision-making.

"V hlave tridsať, v krížoch sto". Starnutie v autobiografiách v Bratislave a Viedni.

Author(s): Ľubica Voľanská / Language(s): Slovak / Publication Year: 2016

Európa šedivie. Staroba a starnutie sa tak stále častejšie stávajú predmetom mediálneho, sociálno-politického i výskumníckeho záujmu. Subjektívne prežívanie tejto životnej etapy i starnutia ako procesu je však v stredoeurópskom prostredí v sociálnych vedách skúmané málo. Ľubicu Voľanskú zaujímali motivácie správania sa a činností starých ľudí, ich postoje k vlastnému správaniu a konaniu a k správaniu a konaniu iných, ako sú zobrazené v ich autobiografických textoch. V monografii sleduje ambivalentné vnímanie staroby vo verejnom a odbornom diskurze prepojené s vnímaním starými ľuďmi v súvislosti s hranicami staroby. Bežne kladené otázky: Kto je starý? Ako možno stanoviť časovú alebo inú hranicu, odkedy je človek starý? necháva zodpovedať svojich partnerov a partnerky vo výskume. Ich výpovede dáva do kontextu širokej odbornej literatúry, ktorá sa hranicou staroby a prežívaním staroby zaoberá.

"We Believe Journalism is the Ideal Vehicle For Teaching 21st Century Skills". Is the New Meaning of Media Literacy Worth Spreading? Action Research in Silicon Valley

Author(s): Agnieszka Janiak-Staszek / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

"Музикалната естрада продължава да живее в културната памет на българите"

Интервю с Розмари Стателова за новата й книга 'Естрада и социализъм: проблясъци'

Author(s): Zhana Popova / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 5/2019

Interview with Rosemary Statelova about her new book „Estrada and Socialism: Glimpses“

"Разговори" в смарт пространството

Author(s): Roussi Marinov / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 1/2015

In the article “Conversations in the Smart Space" by prof. Rusi Marinov, D.Sc. are monitored the development, principles and models of smart work systems, theories of conversation and their modifications in the modern environment. Analyzed are new forms of communication such as M2M and IoT.

"Символ на надеждата за свят без стени"

Падането на Берлинската стена като глобално иконично събитие

Author(s): Júlia Sonnevend / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 1/2015

"Хибридната война“ в българските медии

Author(s): Ralitsa Kovacheva / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 6/2019

The article presents the results of an empirical study on the use of the term 'hybrid war' (and its analogs) in Bulgarian media. It is focused on the use of the concept in meanings and contexts different from those implied by the existing definitions. The study covers the first five months of 2019. The publications in Bulgarian online media are selected through the news aggregation and analysis system 'European Media Monitor' (EMM). The results show that, in certain cases, the concept is not only used with different meanings, but some derivative concepts are created by the media such as 'hybrid propaganda' or 'hybrid content'

#ForgiveUsForWeHaveSinned:

Conceptual integration theory and political Internet humour

Author(s): Nihada Delibegović Džanić,Sanja Berberović / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2017

The aim of the paper is to uncover the extent to which different forms of political Internet humour can criticise current political affairs in a developing democracy such as Bosnia and Herzegovina. Specifically, applying a cognitive linguistic theory of meaning construction, namely conceptual integration theory, the paper analyses the construction of meaning of humorous Internet forms, such as memes, demotivational posters, hashtag posts, and memetic photographs, representing innovative ways of providing political commentaries on current political affairs. The meaning of political humour is constructed in conceptual blending as a basic cognitive mechanism. As it is claimed (Coulson & Pascual 2006, Coulson & Oakley 2006, Coulson 2006, Oakley & Coulson 2008) that blending can be used as a rhetorical tool influencing the audience to change the reality and even act upon it, the analysis of the construction of meaning of political humour as products of conceptual integration can reveal hidden ideologies in political discourse.